Flying Bushman by Greg Keynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Growing up on the family property, Curbur, in outback Western Australia, Murchison country, Greg Keynes' childhood seemed idyllic. Poignant memories of exploring with his dogs; hunting, working and joking with the local Yamatji people. Breaking free from family ties as a young man, Greg began his own ae ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world by Jessica Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit.TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, theitinerary, what she did to ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life -- Without the Boring Bits by Paul Hogan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a 'tap dancing knife thrower' on channel 9's New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switc ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The poignant account of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the 1930s, and the brilliant first volume of autobiography. A bestseller ever since it was published in February 1993. One of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. Anyone who has enjoyed the Frank McCourt books ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more